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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!kithrup!sef
From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:37:57 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Jul27.193757.3628@kithrup.COM>
References: <1992Jul24.165236.10937@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <1992Jul24.185653.3196@kithrup.COM> <1992Jul27.164228.28312@gateway.novell.com>
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In article <1992Jul27.164228.28312@gateway.novell.com> terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:
>1)	SysVr3.x has got to be SVR3.2 or later.  It didn't include streams
>	prior to that.

Some platforms had STREAMS as early as SysVr3.0.

>2)	OSF has licensed Mentat streams for inclusion, not AT&T.  The code
>	is un-AT&T-encumbered, and runs on many diverse platforms (for
>	instance, it also runs on VMS).

That's nice.  They also bought a SysVr3.x license, about three or four years
ago, and the code they are shipping as "OSF/1," for both the macro- and
micro-kernel stuff, still requires a USL source license, if you want source.

>3)	OSF/2 is the beast of interest, and it is based on Mach 3.0.

OSF/2 does not exist, nor is there any guarantee from OSF that they will
ever ship a Mach3.0-based system.

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "My psychiatrist says I have a messiah
sef@kithrup.COM  |  complex.  But I forgive him."
-----------------+              -- Jim Carrey
Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.